Ex State Senator William Wampler’s recent over-the-top endorsement of ex-Virginia Governor George Allen is puzzling. Were those the same four Allen years most of us remember differently? For the state workforce, they were four interminable years of disrespect and of slash and burn attacks and cuts, with good program babies thrown out with the bathwater. A compassionate conservative he wasn’t. State employee input was shunned and speaking out was suicidal under an implicit gag order.

Wasteful new prison spending was set in motion, with present day taxpayers still footing the bill, as prison beds go unfilled.

Allen’s unremarkable six year Senate stint was just that unremarkable, maybe except for having among the highest rates of staff turnover in the entire Senate during that time.

And what of anti-science Allen’s proposed so-called ‘personhood’ amendment, a version of which earlier this year couldn’t even pass in Mississippi and which if enacted, would make criminals of hundreds of thousands of Virginia women who take birth control pills?

Does Senator Wampler endorse the George Allen who wore confederate flag lapel pins in high school (documented photo) and who showed he had not reformed as an adult by using well-documented racial epithets during his last failed Senate campaign?

Think about it. If you disagree with Allen or don’t look like him, you just might be the target of his next macaca outburst. Virginians should continue to keep this hateful man from elected office.

Don Smith
Marion, Va.

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